Bone Research

Reports outline bone research from St. Vincent's Hospital

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, February 9th, 2007

New research, "Promontory drilling in stapedectomy: an anatomical study," is the subject of a report. According to recent research published in the journal Otology & Neurotology, "Anatomical variants such as an overhanging facial nerve or promontory can impede access to the footplate during stapedectomy. Drilling away bone from the cochlear promontory may be required."

"In the case of a floating or depressed footplate, it has been recommended that a "pothole" be drilled in the inferior margin of the oval window. There is little published information on the anatomy of the promontory with respect to these maneuvers. Twenty temporal bones were studied. A series of...

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